Engineering virus resistance using a modified potato gene

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1014-1021

  Cavatorta, Jason ^a,e   Perez, Kari W ^a,f   Gray, Stewart M ^a   Van Eck, Joyce ^b   Yeam, Inhwa ^c   Jahn, Molly ^d  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^c Andong National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^f AAAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; EIF4E; Potato virus Y; Potyvirus; Solanaceae; Tobacco etch virus

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4E;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PEPPER; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; POTATO; POTYVIRUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIROLOGY;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CAPSICUM; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POTYVIRUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; POTATO VIRUS Y; POTYVIRUS; SOLANACEAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TOBACCO ETCH VIRUS;

EID: 80955151510     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2011.00622.x     Document Type: Article

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